From owner-cvs-all Fri Oct 25 7:43: 1 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B022537B406 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 07:42:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail15.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D287743E3B for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 07:42:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 27483 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2002 14:42:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail15.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 25 Oct 2002 14:42:55 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9PEgpn5075152; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:42:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200210251102.g9PB2jwM066925@dotar.thuvia.org> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:42:55 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Mark Valentine Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_dis Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, bde@zeta.org.au, Takahashi Yoshihiro , Poul-Henning Kamp , (Bakul Shah) Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 25-Oct-2002 Mark Valentine wrote: >> From: bakul@bitblocks.com (Bakul Shah) >> Date: Thu 24 Oct, 2002 >> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_disk.c write_i386_disk.c >> write_pc98_disk.c > >> As far as the naming scheme (ad0s1t2u3w4a etc.) is concerned, >> it is all a hack (historical or not)! It does not follow the >> One True Hack (pathnames). Years ago (even before the >> Moronic Boot Record was invented) in a level1 boot I used >> >> /// >> >> or some such syntax to select what to boot. For example, >> >> wd/0/a/kernel >> >> instead of wd(0,a)/kernel. Made perfect sense to me: if you >> have a name-space you name else you index what comes next and >> recurse. Makes even more sense so when you can have a >> stackable disk sub-system. > > /dev/motherboard/pcibus/0/pcib/0/pci/0/7/0/ahc/0/0/0/0/da/0/4/a/kernel, > anyone? :-) /dev/acpi/pcib/0/... :-P -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message